Prof Poets graduated from Hannover Medical School in June 1986. He received his medical training at the Dept. of Paediatric Pulmonology & Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany, and at the Dept. of Paediatric Respiratory Physiology, Brompton Hospital&National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK (to do SIDS research). In 1994, he became director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Paediatric Sleep Lab at Hannover Medical School. Since 2002, he is Chair and Medical Director, Department of Neonatology, University Hospital, Tübingen, Germany. In 2008, he also became chairman of the newly established Interdisciplinary Centre for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Malformations at Tübingen University Hospital. In 2020-2023, he has also been acting medical director of Tübingen University Children’s Hospital. Prof. Poets has also inaugurated the Center for Pediatric Clinical Studies, the only such center dedicated to clinical studies in children. Both, in 2019/2020 and in early 2024, he was visiting professor at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Hobart, Australia. He has (co-)authored over 470 articles cited in PubMed and has contributed to over 120 review articles. His main research interests include the control of breathing, infant nutrition, sleep apnea/intermittent hypoxia, treatment of craniofacial malformations, e.g. Robin sequence, SIDS, perinatal epidemiology and outcome research, innate immunity, ethical aspects, and the conduct of multicentre clinical trials. With regard to the latter, he was coordinator and Co-PI of NEuroSIS, a large EU-funded multicentre study on inhaled steroids for BPD prevention, and steering committee member of various multicentre trials (e.g., COT, ETTNO, FiO2-C). In addition, he serves on the DSMB of 2 large multicentre international trials (DOXA and HiLo). |
